Emergency-brake.



= J. HAUSER.

EMBRGBNUY BRAKE.

APPLIUATION FILED 00T.1o, 190s,

Patented Apr. 6, 1909.

.moon HaUsER, woF sco'rTDALE, PENNSYLVANIA..

EMEBGENCYhBRAKE.

Specification of Lettera Patent.

Patented April e, 1.909.

Application med oiober 1o, 190s.` serial No. 457,091.

To all lwhom 'it may concern: y

Beit known that I, JACOB HAUSER, a citi- .zen of the United States of America, residing` at Scottdale, inthe county of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Emergency-Brakes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had .therein to lthe accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to emergency brakes forautomobiles` andsimilar vehicles, and the object f my' invention "iS' thE ...provisiongof novelmeans inyclonnection with anlautoino-l bile for retarding and eventually stopping the movement of the same should the chauff feur or driverl lose control of the machine or should it be necessary to immediately stop the machine to prevent the occurrence of an accident.

My invention aims to provide novel shoes for the drive wheels of an automobile, the shoes being normally held in an inactive position, but easily and quickly placed in an active position by the driver of the automobile. 'lo this end, I arrange the shoespbeneath the running boards of an automobile and in the path ofthe drive wheels, the shoes and the mechanism for releasing the same' automobile wheel, Fig. 4 is a plan of one of the shoes, and Fig. 5 is a cross sectional view of the same.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 designates the body of an automobile having drive wheels 2 and a running board 3 at each side of the automobile. 'lhe running boards 3 are provided with depending brackets 4,. 5

and 6 having longitudinally alining o enings .7 formed therein. Slidably mounte in the openings-7 of the brackets of each running board is a rod 8, which is bent downwardly and pivotally connected, as at 9, to the crank 10.0 a transverse shaft 11, journaled in depending bearings 12 carried by the running boards 3. Mounted upon the shaft 11 is an erating lever 13, whlch extends upwardly the body 1 of the automobile adjacent t e drivers seat 14 thereof. lhe position ofthe lever 13 and the juxtaposition of the steering mechanism 15 permit of the driver of the vehicle easily manipulating the -f machine and the lever 13 in case ofan emergency.

In connection with each drive wheel 2 I `use a shovel-like brake shoe 16, said shoe bolts 19 carried by the running boards 3 of the automobile. In connection with the chains 18 coil springs 20 are used, these springs being connected to two of the links of each chain to maintain the slack portions 21, the object of which will presently appear.

The shoes 16 are provided with apertured lugs 22 and these lugs are adapted to fit be` tween the apertureddepending brackets 4 and 5, where said lugs are retained by the rods 8 as best shown in Fig. 1 ofthe drawings. Should it be desired to drop the shoes 16 in front of the drive wheels 2, the driver of the machine swings the lever 13 to the osition illustrated in dotted lines of Fig. 1, t is lever through the medium of the crank shaft 11 .withdrawing the rods 8 from the aperturcd brackets 4 and the apertured lugs 22, allowing the shoes'to drop to the ground directly in front of the drive wheels 2, whereby said wheels will run u on the shoes 16. When the shoes 16 are r'st engaged by the drive wheels 2, the wheels will have a tendency to snap the chains 18, therefore I have interposed the spring 20, whereby the shoes 16 iberica a5. inwardly. extandina` eyebolt 17, -which-` is connected by chains 18 to the eyecan gradually yield to the action of the wheels 2 for breaking or detaching the chains 18 or the parts to which said chains are connected. The shoes 16 are made of strong and durable metal and are beveled, as at 23 and 24,

.to prevent the tires4 of the wheels 2 from being Unthreaded when contacting with said shoes.

After the automobile has been brought to a stand still, the machine can be backed and lOl" the shoes 16 placed in their normal position `beneath the running boards 3.

My emergency brake can be used in connection with an automobile when the ordi nary brakes fail to act, whether the o'wer is on or off. It will of course be un erstood that various parts of the emergency brake are made of4 a size according to ,the'weight of the automobile in connection with which they are-used.

While in the drawings formingy a Kart of this application there is illustrated t e referred embodiments of my invention, it 1s to be understood that the same can be varied or changed as to shape, pro ortion and manner of assemblage without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having now described my invention what I claim as new, is:-

1 In an emergency brake, the combination with 'an automobile body, the drive wheels thereof and the running boards, depending apertured brackets carried by said running boards, rods slidablymounted in said brackets, a crank shaft supported by said runnin boards and connecting with said rods, a ever mounted u on said crank shaft and extendin upwardly above the floor of said automo ile body, shoes detachably suspendcd'upon said rods in front of said wheels, chains connecting said shoes with said running boards, and springs interposed in said chains for providin oslack gortions therein, substantially as escribe 2. In an emergency brake, the combination with an automobile body,'the drive wheels, thereof and the running boards, of depending apertured brackets carried by said running boards, rods slidably mounted in said brackets, a crank shaft supported by said running boards and connectingwith said rods, a lever mounted u on said crank shaft and extenduii-g upwar y above the' floor of said 'automob e body, shoes detachably suspended upon said rod s in front of said wheels, and chains connectlng said shoes with said running boards.

3. In an emergency brake for automobiles, a brake shoe, means includin a longitudinally-movable rod for detachabIy-suspending s aid shoe in an inactive position from the JACOB HAUVSER.

Witnesses:

MAX H. SnoLovrrz, iK. H VBUTLER. 

